As a “Remain” voter, making the best of this Brexit situation means negotiating a deal with the EU which leaves the U.K. as a member State in all but name. But with Theresa May seemingly going for a “hard” Brexit, this doesn’t look likely — at least at this point in time.

So if we’re stuck with a hard or at least non-“soft” Brexit, what should we do? We should look not to the U.S. or trade agreements with other countries for a solution, but instead no further than Scotland.

If another independence referendum is held, Scots may want independence so that Scotland can rejoin the EU or negotiate a deal which would award it de facto EU membership.

Tara Lighten Msiska is a law graduate and freelance journalist. The day she graduated from the University of Edinburgh, she realized the world was a more challenging playground than a courtroom, and also one that would satisfy her writing addiction. In addition to appearing in MyMPN, MintPress News’ reader submission blog, she also writes for Cliterati and Career Addict and blogs here. Other publications she has written for include Guerilla Policy, the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association, Fearless Press, The F Word and The Quail Pipe.

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“They shouldn’t have left the [Brexit] decision to the public, due to its importance,” one of my friends just said.

The counterargument is obvious: democracy takes precedence, even if the electorate is so uninformed that after voting to leave they were googling “What is the EU?”

The question of whether to remain or leave should have been democratically decided aside, the EU Referendum was not born out of democracy. Nor was the vote to leave a working-class rebellion against the establishment.

Those who led both the Remain and Leave campaigns — David Cameron, Iain Duncan Smith, Boris Johnson and others — are the elites, some of them responsible for our now-crumbling NHS, our benefits-sanction starvation deaths, our jobcentre harassment-related suicides. Voting Leave was not a protest vote. It was voting the way the Establishment told us to — as was voting Remain, of course.